Dryland Distillers founder Nels Wroe, left, and BrewHop Trolley owner David Lewis pose for a portrait inside the trolley in Longmont on Thursday. Dryland Distillers and The BrewHop Trolley have teamed up to make alcohol deliveries to people in Boulder and Longmont.

It’s about that time of quarantine to pull up some cement on the front stoop, have a seat and wait for Dennis Hopper to swing by with the drinks.

He’ll be in Boulder Saturday night, but, spoiler alert, he’s a trolley. A trolley that will be delivering booze from Longmont’s Dry Land Distillers.

Dry Land can’t be open, but it can deliver to-go drinks and bottles of its craft spirits. The only problem is, there’s not enough staff. So co-founder of the distillery, Nels Wroe, hired David Lewis and his wife Radha Lewis, co-owners of Longmont’s BrewHop Trolley, to enlist their delivery services via vintage trolley.

“This not only gives them a life line during this time, but it helps us out too,” Wroe said.

Friday, the trolley will deliver to Fredrick and Firestone, will hit Boulder’s streets Saturday and will deliver in Longmont May 30. The team made its first deliveries last week in Longmont and Wroe said it was so popular they had to cut the orders off. Those interested in a Boulder delivery can order at drylanddistillers.com through Saturday by 1 p.m. and Dennis Hopper will come bearing boozy gifts (and free cookies) between 3-7 p.m.

BrewHop is a hop-on/hop-off brewery tour that is usually full of beer, liquor and cider fans, but lately with closures, it’s been dormant.

“For us, this is really all we can do work-wise until restrictions are lifted,” said David Lewis. The trolley carts around private tours and wedding parties. “We’re a niche business and we are trying to come up with some creative ways to get the trolley back on the streets.”

Like most delivery services, BrewHop has its own trolley tracker and Radha Lewis texts and calls people from the route to give them estimated delivery times. The Lewises said it’s fun to watch people in the neighborhood run out to film the trolley.

“There’s nothing else like this in the state that’s going on,” said David Lewis. “Other places deliver, but not by trolley.”

In addition to Dennis Hopper, BrewHop is also home to a smaller trolley called Molly and a bigger one called The Big Lebrewski. David Lewis said he hopes to have the business back on the streets later this summer, even if it’s only for private charters.

David Lewis is a second-generation Longmont native, and he loves his town.

“That’s what I love about Longmont is its community spirit,” said David Lewis. “Everyone is so supportive of local businesses.”

Fans of the BrewHop can buy gift certificates and future use tickets to help the Lewises through the virus crisis.

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Dry Land Distillers in Longmont has a Cactus spirit that’s distilled from a mash of smoked prickly pear cactus.

In addition to deliveries via trolley, Dry Land has been hosting virtual happy hours, with another at 5:30 p.m. Friday. The crew will order to-go meals (and suggest viewers do too) from Boulder restaurants Blackbelly, Bramble & Hare and Moxie Bread Co. Staff will be pairing cocktails with the meals.

Dry Land’s mixologists and alchemists will also host a “nuts-and-bolts” bartender training session to get people comfortable with making cocktails at home. At 6:30 p.m. Friday, viewers can learn how to make bitters while virtually tipping the staff. Both the happy hour and the bitters webinar can be viewed at the distillery’s Instagram and Facebook accounts (@drylanddistillers).

Dry Land partnered with Longmont’s Soundpost Acoustics for filming and audio aid.

“It’s really been a cool experience to realize that the talent that we need to get through this crisis is all right here in our community,” said Wroe. “We didn’t have to go outside of the local community to get what we need.”

For those who miss the trolley opportunity, Dry Land offers pick-up orders through their front door, which is in the alley.

“It’s kind of fun, it has a bootleg feel to it,” Wroe said. He’s “planning optimistically” for an early June reopening of the taproom, but that, of course, could change.

Wroe said this week Dry Land was selected to run a national live event for Slow Food USA. The global organization was founded in the late-’80s and promotes local farming, sustainable foods and small businesses that practice this movement.

“We’re leading proponents of Slow Spirits,” Wroe said. “We’re very representative of the land around us.”

The distillers at Dry Land create its spirits using heirloom grains and local ingredients. Fun fact: It’s the only distiller in the country to create a single-grain whiskey from White Sonoran wheat, one of the oldest grains in North America. Moxie Bread Co. in Boulder makes some of its bread out of that same ancient grain.

Dry Land will go live with Slow Food at 4 p.m. May 29. Guests can register at slowfoodusa.org/slow-food-live and go on a virtual tour of the facility, learn about its local ingredients and how to craft signature cocktails.

In the meantime, knock back a few cocktails in honor of local businesses by ordering from an award-winning distillery that have been delivered to your door by Dennis Hopper.

“We’re stronger together,” Wroe said. “It sounds cliche but it’s truly the case. BrewHop can’t function without breweries and distilleries open and they’re helping us to get our product out.”

Christy Fantz has been covering Boulder's features beat for 15 years. As a longtime columnist for the Colorado Daily and current features editor for Boulder County newspapers, Fantz enjoys temporarily rendering readers' jaws agape with a little love tase now and again. It keeps us young.